racial hygiene practical discussion eugenics de thurman rice a m m d (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition, First Printing, Original brown cloth binding with black text on spine. Spine and tops of boards are faded, spine ends and tips are frayed. Interior is lightly tanned but unmarked. The Progressive Era saw the birth of eugenics, based on the biological determinist beliefs of Francis Galton, and eugenicists translated early scientific research into genetics into ideas of racial and ethnic genetic superiority. The eugenics movement attracted funding from American corporate foundations, coinciding also with the rise of public health services in America. This book is one example on the subject, from an author who also wrote books and pamphlets on sex education and the effects of alcohol and drugs. Rice uses the science of the time to explain heredity and inheritance, followed by examples of "good and bad stock in the human race." He suggests a problem with the current strength and continuation of the white race following World War One, and pressured by genetic "defectiveness. [and the] colored races." He also discusses housing, economics, disease, labor and marriage laws. Late chapters discuss sterilization and the existing eugenics laws of certain states at that time. Thurman Brooks Rice (1888-1952) was a physician and public health leader, and later became professor of bacteriology and public health at Indiana University, assistant director of the Indiana Division of Public Health, and acting state health commissioner during World War II. Hardcover, good condition. 376 pages, octavo.